The Randa sprint starts on September 21st. The fundraising drive has just a few days remaining. Randa is important to the KDE Community, which includes everyone who contributes, participates, supports and, most importantly, uses KDE software. Two key KDE developers—Aaron Seigo and Martin Gräßlin—have shared insights about Randa. The value that KDE software delivers to millions of desktops all over the world is mind-boggling; made more so because the cost to users is zero. This is possible because the KDE Community thrives by giving, not taking. It is the epitome of Free and Open Source software. Many people donating small amounts will make a big difference. As part of the KDE Community, would you please consider donating?A few days ago, there was a Dot story about twin brothers from Greece who will be part of Randa for the first time. In that story, Giorgos wrote about what Randa means for him personally and mentioned being inspired by his brother to be part of KDE. Below is what Antonis wrote about Randa.

Last week, the first games for Linux have been published on Steam Greenlight. The number of games is daily growing with an incredible speed. Greenlight allows the Community to vote on games for the inclusion in the Steam game list.

Interview with Manuel Di Cerbo, creator of OsciPrime: the open source hardware and software oscilloscope for Android. Manuel talks about designing the hardware, distributing free software, and why he chose Android over Apple.

One of the areas where the Linux kernel is still catching up with compared to Windows is power management for some classes of hardware and with that the ACPI support. While there is some level of ACPI 5.0 support, other features are still being tackled for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface...

For those curious about the open-source Nouveau graphics driver performance on Ubuntu 12.10, here's a few benchmarks from a recent test release of the Quantal Quetzal with the reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver code...

None of my previous meetings with different OpenSuSE products finished well. Although I liked OpenSuSE 11.4 KDE more than OpenSuSE 11.4 GNOME, I still was not too happy with it. OpenSuSE 12.1 Li-f-e, which I reviewed few days ago, did not change my opinion in that area. In the meantime, I decided to give OpenSuSE 12.2 a go.

To some people’s surprise, even open-source software has a license attached to it. And with that license comes a description and agreement for what can and can’t be done with the source code of any particular product or service. What exact license the specific open-source software lies under is generally up to the developer(s) and/or current maintainers of the original code.

Ubuntu 12.04 includes a desktop interface that is a strong departure from previous versions. One of the most striking differences upon logging into the system is the launcher. The launcher is a vertical bar that, by default, resides along the left side of the screen. It is similar to the dock in Mac OS X and aims to make your user experience more efficient and intuitive.

While Steam Linux Client is still being in development, there is an excellent digital game distribution service Desura available for the Linux gamers. Desura has been released for Linux one year ago and has even been open-sourced this year.

For those interested in Wayland, Qt, and 3D, there's an interesting new Wayland compositor out in the wild. This compositor renders a 3D maze using Qt and brings in some Wolfenstein 3D elements while allowing Wayland surfaces to be rendered on the walls...

Nowadays virtualization is for anyone and virtual machines run smoothly in every new hardware. However people seem to avoid it and there is an explanation. The “complicated” interfaces and the ignorance of the use-cases of virtualization. The possibilities of virtualization are endless and just one of them is to backup our files, databases and whatever else.

One of the stumbling blocks in migrating to the Linux desktop is the mistaken view that you can't take it with you. Your data must remain captive to the Microsoft operating system. Not true at all. A related misconception that stalls many Windows users from adopting the Linux OS is the belief that when you buy a new computer or install Linux to an existing computer, you must give up one operating system for the other.

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 12.2 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

Announcing the Sound Update of the deceptively simple strategy game that puts you in the role of the evil villain. "Stop That Hero!" now features more minions to summon, more heroes to fight off, and more levels to challenge your ability to be an evil ruler. Available for GNU/Linux.

Join us for three days of inspired making, learning and celebration in London. Today we[he]#8217[/he]re extremely proud to launch the new 2012 Mozilla Festival web site [he]#8212[/he] and invite you to join us November 9-11 in London, UK. [he]#8220[/he]We want [he]#8230[/he] Continue reading

Humble Indie Bundle 6 has just been presented with 6 exciting titles. All the games are making their Linux debut and can either be downloaded directly from www.humblebundle.com and also can be redeemed in the Ubuntu Software Center or on Steam.